SHANKILL
ST JAMES’ COI, CRINKEN
Services of Worship for this Sunday: The church remains closed till further notice. There is no Worship Service in the church building but it will be streamed online. Check the church’s website for details and further updates.
Private Prayer: The church building is open on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. for private prayer. Subject to Covid-19 procedures and restrictions.
Weekly Church Events/Activities: All of these for this week and for next week are suspended – check the church’s website for further updates.
RATHMICHAEL COI
Sunday Worship in Church: Arising from last Fridays night government announcement raising Dublin City and county to Level 3 Lockdown, there will be no in-church Sunday Services of Worship till further notice.
Streaming of the 11 a.m. Sunday Morning Service from Rathmichael Church can be accessed on https://www.youtube. com/channel/UC9bOeLVvvTpZNbtbgSVC_XQ – please join us for this Sundays 11 a.m. Morning Prayer Service. Videos will go live shortly after 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings.
Parish and Erck Hall Activities: Remain suspended.
ST ANNE’S PARISH
St Anne’s Parish Website: The parish website is stannesparishshankill.com.
St Anne’s Resource Centre: The parish office is open Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Advice from the Archbishop of Dublin: Everyone is dispensed from the obligations of physically attending Sunday Mass by the Archbishop of Dublin for the duration of the present emergency.
Masses in Church: As Dublin City and county has now moved to Level 3 Lockdown, the celebration of Public Mass in church is suspended till further notice and can only be viewed on online.
Masses:. You can join in the Mass on stannesparishshankill. com – click on ‘watch us live’. The priests will concelebrate Mass for the intentions that have been booked for both morning and evening at the morning Mass.
Miraculous Medal Novena: Said each Monday during the 10 a.m. Mass.
Private Prayer: St Anne’s Church is open for private prayer Monday to Saturday from 10.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 11.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Church visitors must maintain the social distance of two metres from each other while in the church.
The Rosary: Join us online at 9.30 a.m. every morning, Monday to Saturday for the Rosary.
Holy Hour: Join us online at 3 p.m. on Wednesday and Fridays.
Baptisms: Baptisms take place with parents, Godparents and immediate family only in attendance.
Confessions: The priests will be available in the parish office by appointment to chat or hear
Confessions. Please call 01 282 2277 to make an appointment.
Blessed Sacrament Adoration Chapel: The Blessed Sacrament Chapel remains closed.
Remembering a loved one: Apostolic Work provides Mass kits to priests in poor parishes in developing countries. Each Mass kit can be dedicated to the memory of a loved one with an engraving on the chalice so that they are continually remembered in Mass. A donation of €350 will cover the cost of a complete Mass kit and a simple inscription. The Mass kit includes vestments, altar linen, chalice and ciborium in a light metal box for travel. If you would consider subscribing for a Mass kit or helping with a donation or becoming a sewing member please contact Kathie Davy at 2823014 for more information.
Suggestions Welcome: This is your parish – your suggestions are always welcome – these can be left in the suggestions box in the church. These will be considered by the St Anne’s Parish Pastoral Council when meetings are permitted to resume.
Ballybrack-Killiney and Loughlinstown Parish Grouping: The dispensation from attending Mass is still in place because of the pandemic. All our Masses, weekdays and weekend, are streamed on the internet and are best accessed from the parish website. Arising from last Fridays night government announcement raising Dublin City and county to Level 3 Lockdown, the celebration of Public Mass is suspended in both Sts. Alphonsus and Columba Church and the Church of the Apostles till further notice. Funeral Masses are now limited to 25 family members and close friends and the two metres distance needs to be observed in the church and church grounds. All our Masses are available online at mcnmedia.tv. Mass Times: 10 a.m. – Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday in Sts Alphonsus and Columba Church; 10 a.m. – Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday in the Church of
the Apostles. The previous announced Saturday evening Mass in St Stephen’s church, Killiney, scheduled to resume on Saturday, September 26, is suspended till further notice. Donations may be made on our parish website using the Donate button (‘proceed as Guest’). We still need volunteers to disinfect our churches (half an hour per week) and to act as stewards. Our parish Newsletters and Sunday Missalettes are available on the parish website ballybrack-killiney-parish.org.
SHANKILL LIBRARY
Shankill Library, located on Library Road, Shankill, has reverted to a ‘click and collect’ operation as Dublin City and county has now moved to a Level 3 Lockdown. The library can be contacted at 01 2823081 or by email at: shankilllib@dlr4coco.ie.
SOFA/DAY CARE BOOK SERVICE
Aware that a lot of you are stuck at home and would really love a few books for company, Shankill Day Care/Shankill Old Folks Association (SOFA) are delighted to announce the re-opening of its Book Sale service. However, due to the Covid-19 crisis, it will be an email/phone order and collection service. You can place an order for specific book titles or authors (and we will check to see if we have them in stock) or you request a specific genre (Fiction, Crime, Mystery, History etc) and leave it up to us to find a suitable book for you. All books are in pristine condition and very competitively priced. We also have a selection of jigsaws and DVDs also very competitively priced.
To place an order, you can email us at SOFABooks4U@ gmail.com or send us a text or WhatsApp message at 089 4932103. To collect the books, we will send you a message to let you know when your book (s) are ready for collection and the amount owing and then you can call to the Shankill Day Care Centre, Lower Road, Shankill
D18 HW95, and pick them up between the hours of 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Wednesdays or Fridays. Please note that we are not in a position to accept new books or take back any returns while the Covid-19 crisis is ongoing.
RATHMICHAEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Members of the Rathmichael Historical Society, the local history society from Shankill and the surrounding area are asked to note that the programme for the Dublin Festival of History 2020, which runs to October 4 consists of online talks, guided walks and events, subject to public health guidelines. The programme is available to download from the festival’s website – dublinfestivalofhistory.ie.
GAA CLUB NOTES
Arising from last Fridays night government announcement raising Dublin City and county to Level 3 Lockdown, training sessions by Shankill GAA Club are suspended till further notice – for further information on the status of activities contact your coach or the club.
The Sunday night ‘Chase the Ace’ which normally takes place in Brady’s remains suspended till further notice.
Our Ladies and Men’s adult teams recently had a brilliant start to the season. Our ladies’ team after the disappointment of losing last year made no mistake in the final this time around. In a tightly contested game against Man O’War and emerged winners by three points. This is the first piece of silverware won by an adult team.
Our Men’s Adult team, who play in the lower divisions of the Dublin County league, had a mighty run in the junior two championship. Reaching the semi-final they were eventually beaten by Wanderers, who were the better team on the day.
What excitement and enjoyment our two teams have given so far this year. The future is looking good for Shankill GAA
and the underage players are on their way. New players always welcome.
For details of our ladies adult football teams email stevedavis203@gmail.com or contact Steve Davis at 087 6414123. For details of the Men’s adult football team contact Kevin Martin at 086 8449902. For more information about Shankill GAA Club and its activities contact – secretary. shankill.dublingaa, ie or call 086 60722746. Follow Shankill GAA Club on Facebook and Twitter.
LAWN BOWLING CLUB
Shankill Bowling green is open to members only. For membership information and activity status please contact Shankill Bowling Club by email at shankillbowlingclub@gmail.com, see shankillbowlingclub.com or call Paddy Hughes at 01 2822740.
CLASSICAL MUSICAL CLUB
Monthly meetings of the club in the Shankill Old Folks Association Day Centre, Lower Road, Shankill, remain suspended. The club will continue to monitor the Covid-19 situation and follow government and local guidelines to decide when it is safe to resume monthly sessions. For further information about the club please phone or text John at 087 2109175; or see shankillclassical. org.
SHANKILL TENNIS CLUB
Shankill Tennis Club is currently open to members only. Further information on membership and activities available from the club’s website: shankilltennisclub.com.
CHARITY CYCLE
Last August Crawford Kidd and friends undertook a mammoth 820km cycle from Mizen Head to Malin Head covering this distance in five days. The object of the cycle was to raise funds for Rathmichael Parish, Rathmichael School, and other a number of other charities. Over €16,000 was raised and there is still time to donate via the fund me page or can be left at reception in Station
House, Shankill Business Park. A big ‘Thank You’ is extended to those who have already made a donation and/or supported this event.
NEW BOOK BY SHANKILL AUTHOR
‘No Hope – The ‘peculiar theories’ of James Fintan Lalor’ by Shankill based author James P Bruce, reveals how in 1847 and 1848 a little-known farmer named James Fintan Lalor wrote a series of newspaper articles in which he outlined his vision for Ireland after the Great Famine. Although they have been reprinted and republished many times since, till now there has been no systematic study of the principles and proposals that Lalor expounded.
In this book, James Bruce considers Lalor’s brief career as a writer and offers new insights into his treatment of the national and land questions. By elucidating Lalor’s ideas on these questions, exploring possible influences on his thinking, and assessing the impact of his writings on his contemporaries, the author seeks to address what he regards as two deficiencies in the historiography.
The first of these is the tendency to assign only a minor, supporting role to Lalor during the brief heyday of Young Ireland. Academic studies typically portray him as little more than a catalyst in the radicalisation of figures like John Mitchel, rather than as a profoundly original thinker in his own right.
The second issue is the commonly held perception of Lalor’s proposals on land tenure as foreshadowing the creation of a ‘peasant proprietary’ later in the century. The author argues that Lalor advocated a much more radical plan that would link his two primary objectives: the creation of a sovereign Irish republic, and transfer of control over landholding from a small number of landlords to the entire Irish people.
By comparing and contrasting Lalor’s theories with those of earlier figures such as Thomas Paine and James ‘Bronterre’ O’Brien, this ground-breaking book broadens the perspective on Lalor and his writings beyond the context of Irish nationalism, highlighting the fact that Lalor’s unique contribution to Irish radical thought merits a more prominent place in nineteenth-century intellectual history than it has hitherto received.
Author James P Bruce was born in Dublin, Ireland. He spent the greater part of his adult life in banking, before setting up his own marketing consultancy in 1997. Ten years later he published his first book, ‘Faithful Servant: A Memoir of Brian Cleeve.’.
Researching the book involved many hours in libraries and archives. Stimulated by this experience he enrolled as a mature student at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2008. He graduated with a BA in History and later moved to University College Dublin, where he completed an MA in the History of Religion and society. In 2019 he was awarded an MLitt by the university of Oxford. He continues to write for both general and academic audiences and currently hosts a podcast series entitled ‘Talk About Ireland.’.